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DM I N I5TR ATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate cl Di:vH SlurTer. Uu of I'aiat towniMp,
Letter f a'iir.SnisiratH; tm the .bor eatat:
ba.ia Wen printed to lle un.Urlie,l. not lee if
".u rei v a.", -i. i tho- i.;-tc.l to It t.itnske iutme-4:-.te
'ayiBi-ut. ri.i tl.us- UHTlnir elaiias aieatiirt
!L to prv-V -:.l to -in duly ftv.t in n 1 -atrd tor ettle
nu n: -n Sctttn'sy. tS r5h (lay of NorM urri, at
iiio late run. .ear of ei d.-eesM-l.
Ulii A. SHAFFF.K.
cr6 A.ituinixtratur.
.4 DWiM6TR.T0IVS XOTlCE.
tsuu of I- Jry P .at. Kr., latter Taint Twp.,
j ad77-ift&X
j LeLUr t-: a-liniLiU'taii i on the above estate
havirj tn irmi'.a i To the undr?t nrtlfc U
! hivy triwiii uwrf UvJ' J'tcvi i 11 lu make imme--;
lUte pynu-tL. an I tiixM ha tint: rUimfi airniurt it
i toprt-wnt thftn aly t.heiliaii fcir an. demerit
Iuo aSatariay, uUi "iay vf JiuTtjmbcr! at the
IaU real iciicc of tiw5"l.
UAVXDM. HAMMER. .
t!3 Admiuinratyr.
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SOMERSET,
Misctllaneont.
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AMERICAN CYCI.Or.EDIA
NEW KE VISED EDITION.
Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers on every
u:.jott. iTiuiovl trum new type, ctl illumieii
wtuu Kveral tbtjiaonua uigiuvuigs ua om-i.
Ttie work urlguutlly ituoliiDetl uoJer the title uf
TusAkw AJkKit cv-ixii-jiima w oumplet-
hi ui 1MJ, smco wuica uuie me wiaecireumuun
wn u-ii 11 tins muitueil iu ll uaru ui the I uttea
&!;;, una tu ikuI uevtloiimeuti wuicli Hare
takcu tiiAce in every urumli i eoteucc, literature,
auaun, nave rn.iuv.-etl tlie eailnra aail i.utilnners
lo auLuiii to an enact na tliortjujru revisiun. ana
to wue a new elii.iuu.iutiuca 1 ULAiaii.iJ v 1
h uum the lait .ten yearn Uie irojreM ui Uuv
t-ovcr iu every ueiariuient ul uo leiine ua
tua.ie a new wurk 01 reierence an iuitruv
1 ue movement of 4oli ileal ifiairs.Laj;ice-Jt pace
wuii iijouitK-overtets ul aeience, ana tlicir truiJui
ai.va-.aUou to tlie uiuutruil anil uselul ax j, ana
mo tiKivciuint-e aua renuement ol (un.al uie.
Ore l w-ira ana coiiaeiiueui revoiutiona uave.oc
curreo, luvolviug uauoual cluuigt ul pceuliar mu
meuu lue civil war 01 our uviu euouu-y, wlucn
Mas .L il. iieutntwueu Uie lai vuluuio ul tlie ula
wurk, .iivari.a, hu napitlly been enaea, and a
tie ixiuk ul cuuiuieriuai aua uiatuirial activity
ll:i.s 1M-. 11 1 .illlllll-ltljnl.
i-iige aceersh.u. tuour geoirrnpUical knuwlwlgt
n e uciiu utaue uy tlie luutlatiaoie esplurers ul
Alrica. . , , .
lut; areat juliiUI revoln.ilon ol tho utstiieeaiie,
aim n.t utnnil ru.ull ul lue lati ul tuuc, nave
urouut miu view a multitude ul new men, whose
ualuuj are lu every one .utuUlU, ana Ul w nuee uvea
every uuc Is eurioU lu know tle imrdcuUrS. threat
taittia imve Meu K-UKM d uiiiorini sietcca
luatuuiiueu, ol wnltll me details are a yet .re
airiuauiity 111 lite newnp-ii-er or iu Uie irauienl
luiiK-a.i..ii! ol tue cut, i-ui wuicU oa-'l.l now to
-iketiieiri-aee IU Jieriuaneul tiud aumeutlc ld-
tf.V.
lu iTiparmn the jtrefent el;iK-u lor the press. It
l.usaecoriu.aty iwulaeaiuiul tlieetlllort to fruijf
1: .wii me iniurtuaiion to tue iaiest l"-i'inie da tea.
and to luniiM an aeeurate aoouu.ul ui the mo.t re
ciui uiMuvenea in -seteuee. ul every trcsh produc-tk-u
ui iiieraiure, au i ul tue newtat Uiveutumj in
lue praelleal .11. an well a U. give a nuecuict and
or.ii.ii..! reeuTd ul tne (.route:- ui ujittical and nia
torivaicvenuf. 1 n work uaa ueeu beijuu alter lona; and care.ul
prelumuary latr, uua wan tue most ample re
ourec lur carry uig it en to a iu.vetiui laruuna
lion. iSune uf the ungual stereotype plates nave teen
iini, but every page l.as been pr:uie-u on new
1 1 pe, tunning luUii anew L'yclupa.-um.Withine
.uitd plan and cuuipasa al iia -reaeevasur, uui
aun a lar greater peeuuiary eipeuuiuM,
aim auen luipruveuii'iiLffiu us c.U!poeiiitii aa have
ikxu .Uii esied uy l.uger eip- rienee ana tuui eu
kli..ieae.
ln mujiratioM which are introdnctoulor the
ura, iiuic lu iae prcseut ediuoc luve imuiwuwi
MKTIW.Mi ple.orlal lUeel, lUt to give IU-
elai.y aua lor-e lu tue eiplaiiaiaius ui v
1 lit ; euioruiv all urauenea ul rcieuee out' :
ral niJiory, aua aeprcl tlie most lamuuit aua re
maraauie leaiure ul seeuery. areulleeturo aua
ar., a.a well asiue various prote.-ses ol mevliaulee
.1.11 mauuueiurer-i. Aiiuouan uitenuea lur iu-siru-llou
miner lliall iruiueuisuuieut, uu iliuA
Late tn.cn spared to Injure tut-ir ara-nceaeei-luuuc;
tue lv ol llielr eaeettlluu u enormous, and
ii 1? oileve-i luey ill Una a nmvilie reeepmu as
tu a .uiira .ie iciture ul iuj 1 j jit.paidio, aua or
iny 01 11 Uiiu eLaraeter.
llus moil is sola to ?u'Jaelit.ers ouiy, lynl'le
unueilvery ol eaeu Vuluuie. it, will l uouipieleu
in .llceu Uir-u uvuvu VuiUUien, eaeu ct-U"iliiU.)tl
aLnui m iwes, luliy liius, ra.ed, wuh several
Uiousani wood Laiitravuiiif, aua wila numerous
e-oiuiou Lalliorapuic jdapa.
llilCLAUril-i.t'r EIXLIM.
In extra cloth, per .! I 9
iu Linrury lcaiiier, ier vol
iu iiali turkey lurrueeu, pervul I
lu Halt 1. uj.au, eaira allt, per vui
lu luujiorroeeu, aninjue, -jut eige, per vol . lu
lu tun iiiusui, per vol Id
Twelve volumes now ready. 5-ui-ceeiug Toluuui
ui.lll oumpleil'iC, will ue Issued uuce tuiwu ia.ai.lu.
cueeiiueu i-a-jea 01 tne Auiertcau 1,'yeiopai
1.L1, iiiowiuK type, uratrati..n, etc., will u. sent
gruti.i ou applK-iitiou.
'ir-.t 1-U.-1 cauvaasiug atteats wanted.
A.l.lress " J. M. WILLIAMSON.
A-tjoot, No. 10;, MxmSu, fuui.ui(li, la.
$rr - lOn Por A5fnti wntrt. - All
J LU p-Vy ciaiisciioi wurfctnj? penpluf Uth
.-'xcii, youni and ill, make mure money at work
,run, in taeir own loruliftei, during their sjwre
lu itumits, or h LI the liiae. thiui anyihuin else. We
oiler pinph'yaifnt that will pay faannmiely fut
ercry hour t work. Fall parttt-nUrt, kraiB. Kc,
-:it irce. JSea-i ns yar hlrce at onoe. lxu't
!fl:iy. Nkw Is the time. Don't look Urr work or
bttMiiw els-rwhre until you hive learned mhsi
vtler. ii. Srixsoat t Co., FortUnd, Me.
1U 13
OTICE.
All person are hrrerir notifieil not to tirpjiM
upon hind ul the nndersigne-J in Upper and Low
er Turkeylit townships. Somerset County, un
der Krerest peDaltl? ui law. Hunirj wpwlallv
pp. uu. ued. W. L. HDLL1TZLLL.
ep'22
XT0TICE.
.oitice U herebv piven that the uuieriicnel wii
ell at private sale the fallow 1111; trans ul land
btluufrma; to fcamnel Zimmerman, stiirned to
V. m. Z.uiuieruiau.Ior the UeueQt uf hu creditors
lo wit:
No. I A traot c.t land iltnate In Qneaiabonlni;
t. Kn!ip, couuilnlnic 60 a.:re, with good build
dinn, '
No il A tract a.Ijolniair K aliove tra?t an I Joseph
Zlmtnrtn.-in. Cuatalnlng J acres, with boa.ie an.l
shop thereon.
No. 3. A trart pltaa'e in Sh-ide townfhlp, a.!
). Ininr Anthony Werhtenheijer nl others, eon
uiinintf 100 aerea, more or le9. ail good limber
Lin. I. a ill. a hou.-vami (til.le lh re..
Al, a No. 1 anwmill with cirele wi and n
jrine initi eonditi.tn. and a uir)te lot of yariur.f
kinds ol lomber. namely, pine, spruce, ash, oak.
(iinn, jwplar. chestnut, u;pir, maple, cherry, tc
1 erjKi;i wiuili to tiuytollt dt well to 1 iress
or caii ou the ur..u. riiimr i a t Jenr.er X Knadi".
W JI. ZLM.Mtli.MAN,
lii.'j5 Ailiiiass.
AV. DAVIS & BRO S
Grocery and Confectionery
SOMERSET, TA.
Wedeiiw to Inlorm the people of this eemma
nity that we hare purchased the Grocery and Cn
fcitotiery ul H. Y. Kii-per, tail., oppjeite the
Rirnet liuuna, and hare made taiual.ieadditi.iiK
t the aliTn.ij tsidoekot (.Ij. We sell all the
best brauds o
FLOUK,
AMDMK.U,
1H.FFLE,
TEAS,
SiaAKS,
klCIL SiYaUV,
FUK,SAlT.
SP1CIJJ,
Al'PLES.
FLAVCUINU EXTRACTS,
DKIF.lt AND CANNLD FKl'ITS.
ALfeU,
CttALOU, TOBAtXX), CIGARS
sniff, iiuixms,
KtVKETS, Tlr2S, ke
Ait LI; ii Iri-.U a-aJ cutiimna
CANDIES, UwTS. CliiVCaEHS
FANCY CAKES, PERr CTtfiEKY,
AND TOILET AliTICLES.
COMBi, BliCSHES, SOAr, fcf,
Alta aa aaforunect of Toy., i-c, ti the Uitk
folk..
li ya want nrtli!i.; In ft Grocery kixl Con
fectionery line call at
Davis' Clxeap Jrocery
nov. 8-IT.
p.RM FOR SALE.
F.lia" Snoberg-er cflTr l.ls fine farm, sltnate two
mile. Northeast of tk-heimbarir. Bed lord osaatT,
fa., at private tale. The farm contains 14 aerea,
all under frnc and wetl watered, pert of it m-ln
la a -"! sutt of euliivatiua an4 the remainder
well limtKre.i. There are three apple orchards
nd aimmlvTiif peach ami cherry trees oa tlie
prrnits. PuMlcriad paswi by boete and bariu
CUuivbe.. fbirca. tch4 lnine an I mill are ronva
nient. Thla turro is Pie.ved bt tii.w miles from
the KailfUN.l. lot further rnf..rmati.,n call nu
KUBEKT B. SMITH.
oclll . Slianksviile, Pa.
JXECUTOR'S NQTICIL
L.riui uf John Wan, lata of Allegheny town,
hip, liuoeafed.
Letters teetamentary on the above estate
having been Kranted to tne wmiersigned, notice la
berrl.y (tivea to those Indebted to It to make Int.
mclute payment, aod tbom haelnf; claims
a(auiat it, tit prevent lb -m duly authenticated
..r aetllcetent at the Ula reidencof th de
ceased, on Saturday, KovcrnVr is, lfTi.
JOHN C. REITZ.
CIS LiCOutoT.
set
aer
ESTABLISHED, 1837.
PA., WEDNESDAY,
A STOUT BT THE SEA.
BT THOMAS UCIIUiL
At mid of niirht beside the sea.
The moon far in the west,
I ili;U"d fur one tuof gone from m
Who day by day Kill feems to be
A dweller in my breast.
And suddenly a itranirer came
As if from out the tide
A man of bow'd yet stalwart frame,
Whose face I knew not, nor his name
And sat him by my side.
He laid bis brawny arm on mine,
That old man by the sea :
His locks were boar with age and brine,
Ills eyes with fitful (learns did shine
A weird old man was he.
"Comrade !' so spake the weird old man
"A zood Odd lores as alL
This world is order'd by a p an,
Too broad for the or me tu scan.
That covers great and small.
AVhy bog a furrow In thy heart
And nurse it Into life?
Why rub the wound until it smart '
Why turn aaalnst thyself the dart
And perish in the Krife
In other years how Ion; aro,
Cuuirade, 1 cannot tell,
In sua and shine, in rain and snow,
When all was calm, when storms did
I served a skipper well.
I saved his life and ruk'd mine own t
A daughter fair had he t
Before another year hail ran
The skipper own'd m as a son
'My husband 7" whlsper'd she.
I built a cabin on the shore :
Next dour to heaven it secui'd :
For love eame in the often door,
And from the ratters to the fi ot
Its Messed present beamM.
The Uod In whom we trutcd sent
A batie of beauty there,
And as the seasons came ami wen,
They added, tu o jrglad content.
Two others jBSt a fair.
I went a Toyageo'er the sea.
My heart still staying home ;
O'er many a sea and far euuntry
For wite-sake and onr children three
I was content to roam.
My wandcritig; jonmcy o'er. 1 sought
My eot beside the sea.
For lue- and treasure I bad brought
Beyon-I my buyhuod't wildest tiwuitM
For wife and children three.
b!o
Sly hurryici? feet soon reach'd the p
t:
A ruin mock'd my slirht,
Mid smoking embers, black and hot,
All, all had perih-d with tne out
My heart died, too, that night.
Comrade ! the years I euuul no more,
1 leive them in Uj'i harnl ;
I gave away u-.y hard farn'd stum
To tlniso who Deeded tfeasur; m re,
And now I watch the s;rand ;
Ami when the wrckinf winjs do Mow
IKt vessels to the shore,
lu my (rood lile-buat f.irtb 1 go,
To aid the strumrlers ia tbclr woe.
As Christ hath done bei'ore.
Now, omradc ! ere with tliee I part
This only will I say:
(lo lit el Iht sorrows fAy f arf
(No ma'U? whusu'ere thou an)
Ay dainf xia afl'ft.-,
A far-off U,k as In his eyes.
As If he saw away
Beyond the sea the bleased skies,
Where noone weeps and auone slhs.
Where God's beloved stay.
The weird old man arose and sped
Ills way along; the lea ; . "
T pondorM on th wtvrlVhe abl-l.
And pray'd, liefore I fought my bod.
To be as wis as he.
IX THE D.tKh,
Le time keeper k-ft Lia sent by
the door as the wbidtle Bounded from
the roof of the boiler bouse and tbo
echoes of iu boouiiug sbriek. came;
back from ibe bilid across tbe raviue!
through which tbe Black River found
its waj. He bad banded in bis re
port at tbe oilice before tbe blacken
iug speed of band and wheel and
ebuUiu bad softened the clamorous
whir cf the fipindles and the rumb
ling of the mules to a whimper and
then to eileuce; when down the stair
cases of tbe great central tower, past
the now unguarded door, and out in
to the gray darkness of the late twi
light, rjistled a crowd in calico,
dividing into three streams as it
Bashed over the threshold, one going
north to the corporation boarding
house, another taking the opposite
direction toward the meaner part of
tbe email village, and a third cross
ing the canal directly to the tene
ments dimly seen on its bank. Tbe
hundred windows of the huge mill
shone yellow. To travellers on the
"down express" that stood by the
station platform, tbe pump of its safe
ty brake panting as if impatient of
tbe delay, those lights setpe'J gold
en flecks in a mine of prosperous in
dustry, and their distant gleam sug
gested pleasant thoughts of a busy
multitude. Near to the walls tbe
slanting rays lighted up indistinct
figures, hustling away in long pro
cessions that broke into knots or sep
arated iuto individuals. They were
mainly those of women. Some wore
showls drawn over their heads, otheis
were still f-heltered by the straw hats
that had seen service under the heat
of the summer sun; some stepped
along with a sort of sorry jauntiness
in tcatouTS and tt-nnmue trappings
that fluttered and swung in the
glancing reflections from above.
With a cling o! tbe bi-H tbe train
nioYtd on toward tbe great city.
Tbe lights disappeared by sections
from tbe front of the nn!!-a score of
windows beiD blotted out at once,
like a wink of Agus and tbe few
hurrying feet that sped away thrat g i
the gathering darkness left bebiud
them a towerioj black monument,
whose IroaJ stony expanse was re
lieved only by tbe glimmer of a
lantern here and there as it passed
window after window at the pace of
man's walk.
Tho will Lad closed for tie night.
But before tbe last raw cf lights weot
ont, there stepped through the va
cant doorway yet another figure in
calico, not bastiiy, out w:ti s.o ex
pectant oir, ss if tfce delay qau been
i with purpose.' Even in the dim
light, and clothed, in tfipau und
malodorous fnctory dress. It could
be seen ss that of a young woman,
tall bejoud tbe usual height, slim,
and graceful in movement. The girl
came slowly out and paused at
bottom of the jrauHd steps. A
quick but shuFaiug footfall was beard
upon the path of cinders leading up
from tbe canal. It came nearer, wui
a man's lorni appeared ia tlie gloom.
Tho girl stepped out toward iL
"Joe!" tbe Paid.
Tbe man, who was in working
diess, and carried a tin pail, with a
cup of the same material set on the
top like the turret of a monitor,
turned quickly and peered at tbe
speaker. . -
. "Wby, Mary!" be said, with some
thing like annoyance in bis tone; "I
d do't want you to wait form tc-aieht.
I-ii) late now, and tba boss '11 be
xad enough. You'd better go right
heme.' '
'1:
LL J
NOVEMBER 3, 1875.
"But, Joe, I wanted to see you
particular to-night Can't you spare
a minute:" 1 hen, with a certa'n ir
relevancy contrasting with the earn
estness of her voice: "What's made
you so late for the last week, Joe?"
"No matter what's made me late.
Tbe boss has asked that question too
often now, and I don't want bim to
ask it again. Give me a kiss, Alary,
and run off."
With a lighter tone in these last
words, the man's figure leaned
toward that of the girl, and blended
with it for a moment in the darkness.
But one who could have seen this
would have noticed that the shadowy
heads did not meet, and .bat a move
ment of the shawl indicated a gentlvj
t . a. .a. t " A
repeneni motion 01 tne girl s nana.
"No, dear; it Isn't kisses that I
want," said tbe woman sadly. "O !
Joe, don't you know why I've tried
to get a talk with you all this week?
I've cried myself to sleep, and I went
round to vour boarding house."
"Dou't you do that again, Mary,"
said tbe man. "I don't want anyone
running after me there. There's the
boss's lantern coming through the
drying room. You just run alon,
and we'll settle all that the day after
to-morrow. I have all day Sunday.
If you won't give uie a kias "
"As maijy as you want, Joe, dear.
There! there!" And tbe shawl rose
and joined the shadow of the man's
shoulders as if two arms bad been
flung around his neck, and there was
a whisper: "Only don't go to the
Falls Sunday. Joe but come and talk
with me about what you said."
One of the figures disappeared in
the darker shade of the mill. The
former paused a moment, as if gazing
after its late companion, and then
glided straight forward alung tbe
path leading to the narrow bridge of
a single plank across tbe canal. The
girl was nt waikina: rapidly, and as
she neared tbe frail structure she sivv
another form, clad similarly to her
self, seated on the stone coping of the
bank. She would have passed it
unconsciously, but for the fact that a
lung ray of light, psssibly from Joe's
lantern, shining through oue of the
windows of the mill, fell, by chance,
directlv oa this object. The face
showed plainly in the distant reflec
tion, and Mary recognized it.
"Aggie!" said she, "what are you
doing out here in tbe cold?"
"O ! how you frightened me ! Have
you just got through work? 1 thought
you were at tbe house long ago."
i ne speaker was a girl smaller in
stature and younger in her tone and
her manner than the one whom she
addressed. In the darkness of a
November evening in New England
she also appeared only as a shadow,
l!Ue and rouad, if the dim outlines
could be trusted to give an accurate
teken; and as ber taller companion
enveloped her with a Giisky and in
definite arm, tbe gesture itself told of
a seutiment of affectionate protection
which doubtless a fuller light would
have displayed in the countenance.
"We'il go there together," said the
taller, gathering the little figure
closer to her. "What do you want to
come out here alone in tbe dark
for?"
"I hadn't been here but a micute,
and I was thinking. Mary, I might
ss well tell you now all tbe help,
will know it to-morrow they are
going to send off half the bands next
week, and run the mill on short time.
There, now, isn't that just my luck,
as soon as I'd got a good place, aud
father's out of work too, down to the
Falls, and mother's sick."
Tbe brevity of this statement by
no means measured its vast import.
To diminish production one-bait
meant want and suffering to at least
three hundred whose wages came
from labor in the granite mill, possi
bly to both of tbe companions who
now discussed the event It was a
personal matter to each fur beyond
the laws of demand and supply which
regulate tbe movements of corpora
tions. Fully realizing what it im
plied, the cheerfulness oi tbe elder
girl w3 compelled by the consider
ateness of love as she responded:
"Well, you won't have to ro,
Aggie, I don't believe. ,'Tisa't like
ly no way at all !"
"Ye, I shall," said the other.
"I'm oue of the new help, and they
will go first. You are safe enough
but I don't know what I shall do. I
can't go home!"
'T don't believe it," sa?d the taller.
"1 know it's so."
"Who toll you"'
"Joe Dunham. " Jle'a one of th
night watchmen, you know," said
the little uure, with a certain hesi
tation. "Ilis boss told bim Kilpat
rick gut the order from the city last
week."
"Joe should have tolJ sie," the
other began undsr ter breath. But
v bo was this to whom Jee bad gone
w'ub bis chatter of freshest gossip,
while ehe herself was put oil with a
hurried meeting? Her only friend in
the tl I n.r of n il! operatives that
swarmed about ber. The one whom
she Lad chosen to protect and love,
and to "bare in every secret except
the single great mystery that of late
b id oppressed her soul with mingled
b ppinera and fear. She was true
to Aggie, and Joe must be loyal to
her. Tbe two were all she bad, and
she bravely conquered tbe par of
suspicion that wa htout to' fiud a
voict in words.
' Msry Wilson was quite aloc in
the world, rinia was when the
Wjuo5 were the great family cf that
region. For three (fenerations a
Wiiacn bad preacher) Calvinistsc
theology from the pulpit of tbe old re tnaia'-d. another must go. ia fcer
white church that now stood, brown place. She would aotept the alter
and dismantled, deserted for a morel native. She knew what it meant.
liyeiy editice in the centre of the new
Intvn AhivntthiA rtu ner tra.liti.ina !
in all of which the Wilioaa had part.
Tbe older in&abjtaots stilt
nn iicsil tUls h.ili isrken thaw I
told the'fctorv of the Souire Wilson i
who espoused the patriot caus, j
while bis brother, the 4torofdivin-lto
nv. remained a stout Tory. How.
when tbe latter read from tbe pulpit
the thanksgiving proclamation, end
ing. "God sive the Common wealth,"
adding, of bis owa loyal
"Anrl I saw find airs the
motion
the Kin.r!',i
ttiA ftunohtw cmitra tiai. rl..n in tf.:
square pew at th? head of the aisle, Jmiad. For Jee's light fancy for tke
Jfii committed olaspbemy in theiatraage impulsive girl gave signs cf ;
sanctuary by exclaimiog: "And 1 say, j fading. What was in the man's case
Onr damn thA KTino'"
----ft ' -
This was one o tj,Q tta'Uooa.
erald
But the Wilsons bad
from Ashton; and, like many strong j
families, had suffered a sharp descent;
irom prosperous days to obscurity I
and almost axtmction. The gossips
, .
snooK tbeir
hcaJs again over this'
decadence,
and mumbled another
tradiliou to account fur it
Far back of the profane patriot
squire therej was an ancestor yet
more strange. -It was in the days
when Ashton and many wooded
leagues beside were held by Captain
Wilson with otner colouists who
owr;ed him leader. Those were days
wnen men went to tne plow witn a
gna slang from the shoulder
03 well as a rroad in the hand, and.
when the tuuskcM were stacked in the; to the blackness that bid everything,
isle of the church for ase ia repelling; footsteps approached. The new corn
any sudden assault of tbe Indian fae. J s were two, and they stopped as if
On a Sundav niirbt. so the storv I fr farewell so near to Mary that sh
ran. the creat "attack was made whose!
meninrv in rtrcrcoil in thn mmr nfi
Black "River. The settlers made
iheir last stand uoi-n its banks. Of
hose who fell dead among tho ruins'
of their burning houses, and of those'
who fled to the woods to return after
many days, fami.-bed and half frozen,
to tbe a-hes cf tbeir homes, the
records of Ashton preserve the full
list The Mary Wilson of those days
was among this number. When
Captain Wilson, coming back from
bis mission to tho nei-'hhorint- settl -
ineiit lower down the valley, search
ed the blackened foundations of his
dwelling, be found neither charred
orpse nor mutilated body. His
daughter was gone, and he mourned
without hope.
It was years after, when a treach
erous peace ruled between the colo
nists and the Indians, that a woman
wearing a blanket and with uncover
ed head, came to Ais door and claim
ed Lim a father. SLe carried the
degrading marks of Indian servitude,
and she told him of children burn' to
her ia Indian wedlock, and of a home
uuder tbe hide covered poles of the
- '
wigwam. 1 hey clad her once more
in tbe skirts of civilized womanhood,
tte tradition gues on to say; wept
over her, wondering at Ler strange
stoicism; placed ner again on her i xunorunty ana claimed full posses
father's right hand at tho table, aud : slon- IIer ?estral brave planned
took her to the family seat in the '. lbe riia:3ai-'re f tbe Ashton colonists
Tk. tti.!
which the s'ern captain leaned as he
.i. uvu.)v-. A U1UIU. Ull'l
offered up the prayer of thaiiUsgiving
fur release from captivity, was that
evening wet with unaccustomed tears,
But in the morning the wanderer
wasgone. She had wrapped her
wrapped
blanket about her
in the niiibt.
and stolen away
Again it was years before word carue
from Mary Wilson. A boy, through
whose copper colored skin shone the
bright Caucasian blood, brought a
leaf torn from tho gospel of M. John,
upon whose narrow margin was
scrawled her story. The tribe was
smitten with sniaii-pox. Ilusbaud,
children all had died. She herself
was dying, and this, and her eldest
son only remained. Might tbe God
of the Bible and of ber fathers turn
the hearts of their grandparents to
this, her offspring of the wilderness.
The rigid policy of the colony de
manded that tbe infecled youth
should be driven forth. It was Lis
grandfather who shielded bim in
close seclusion until it became evi
dent that the pestilence bad passed
bim by, and was received as a brand
from the burning, as one especially
reserved by i'rovidence for great
things.
Here the details of tradition cease.
Historv steps in to tell us bow tbe
haif-breed grandson of Captain Wil
son continued the family that must
other wise have become extinct, and
how his descendants beldhigb place
ia all the colony.
If there be recurrent periods in
hereditary characteristics, it might
be said that tbe wild, restless, im
provident Indian nature bsd re-appeared
in tbe latter generations of
tbe Wilsons. The name which held
a prominent place on every tax list
from the days when the yearly dues
were paid in corn, had finally disap
peared with the death of Mary's fath
er. Tie pronertv had long since
been absorbed by new comers. Old
beads alone now retained a memory j
of what the Wilsons bad teen. Mary,
tbe last of the line, w as as solitary
and estranged in the midst of the
multitude as her ance.-tress ia the
wilderness.
Rising from the darlres9 of abo
riginal pa&uarytu, tbe race seemed
about to sink now in the night f
civilized barhrism. Many of tbe
characteristics as well as the misfor
tunes of the doomed Indian ret re
duced themselves ia this girl. Un
educated, impetuous, fierce in ber
prejudice, anil headstrong in her
, confidences, she was by nature set
apart frymtihe crowd of New Eng
land factory girl aaiong whom kh
lived and strutted. Iier one wild
pa.--.iou bad fir its object the young
night watchman at tbe mill. Her
afTi't-tioQ, equally rash and equally
strong, was lavished op the common
place girl by whiise side she walked
through the gloom to tbe dingy
boarding boose. For either of these
she would yield, do, or endure any
thing. "You slian'u't lose yotyr piace,
Aggie," were gooiLV-aigat words it
jetting.
a'her was but one way in which
she could make ber assurance good.
The discharge had been long impend
ing. The tiaies were hard, the
market over-stocked, the mills loiiiiir
r i . tt . t,...il
nioarr. 1 crsocisi soiiunaiiuwi, nae
the poor girl the iuiinence to urge
them, would le unavailing. If Aggie
H would be coM and hunger, and, if
un-EReaa name. Dwseiole Ueal.futlOO.
iicksess
But, with a recklessness foreign ccr.
ehnckled'taiulv to her New Englaui UuoU,
ah tru.k tli rhiiirt-- th.il mSim miirht 1
serve Ler friend. She was alone in i
tta world, while Aggie Lad a family
whom ball Lt-r wages weot; but
it was not much a feeno? of duty as
the blind fatalism of
affection that
led to this :tcrifi;e.
Oa Saturday the anso-aement of
the redaction was wade, and Mary'seea, on tbe bank. Even the thin ,
carried, oa Ler plan. Then came
aearr dars. w.xrv tiv Kpn.r and to'
an eaeet or the lax morals ol a iac-
tory village was la
Lers a true affair
WHOLE NO. 12G7
passed awajiO' an nntraioea Heart mm mm it
was a vagary; with her it was life,
The Sunday conference broaght no
satisfaction, and sleep found her poor
pillow alwavs wet; but like tbe Marv
f:l . ,
llson of colonial davs, she clung to
j the man who had done her heart the
greatest wrong.
Night now fell earlier. It was dark
when she took her place to intercept
Joe on bis way to the mill; so dark
that ber tall figure was not distin
guishable from th. gateway against
w hica she leaned waiting. For days i
be had not met her lover, and the
thought had forced itself more strong
ly upon ner tnatsbe wasshnnned.
As she stood straining her eves in-
beld ber breath to avoid discovery.
"Good bv!" sooke Joe's voice from
j out lQ0 deep shadow that Concealed
i al surrounding objects. ".Meet me
at l"e same place to-murrow."
Mary clung to the railway, listen-
tog for tbe answer. It came, in tones
only too familiar:
"Good by, Joe! Don't forget any
thing you have promised me You
are a forgetful fellow, and I don't be
live you care half as much forme as
! Jou pretend." Here there was a
! sound of physical protest on Joe's
part, with suppressed laughter from
tbe girl. "Do go along! That's
enough for to night"
Mary sunk to the ground with a
moan, as her lover walked through
the gate and Aggie tripped off to
ward the town. She lay there, daz
ed by the sudden revelation, cntii the
cold wind that blew a-vay the clouds
from the face of the stars had chillea
her poorly clad form. Iler hart
was frozen, too, and she arose hating
and yearning for revenge against the
lover who bad cast her off, and tbe
friend w ho had robbed ber of ber
loTer eveQ while "tcpting her sacri
It.. f . CL . t j
Gee of comfort She would no more
of it.
Tbe Indian spirit that had slumber
ed for generations now asserted its
: wuq no more bitter craeltr than this
i -.
metamorphosed factory girl plotted
I Wlln Deri,t ?alDSl tne tw' V
i ,ur " "V"1 ttu utwreKog wimiu
j Dave Slven PP llt ltie- fcBe ar,jse
' from lhe frozea ground, transformed
! 3 if by tne evil mUuence latent in
tneoioouoi Ler race. It it had wait -
ed long and quietly for this opportu
nity, it now boldly asserted its do
minion. It might have been au im
placable Indian that strode off under
Mary Wilson's faded shawl to her
lodgings. Her thoughts were too
wild for a civilized brain for the days
of looms and railways.
Shfl nnniiprpri thrnntrh tltiv Line
. i .u.vue,u '""r. l
night "At the same place," he had
said. That place was the other side
of the deep and slow moving canal
which supplied power for the mill.
They came straight up the path.
They must have crossed tbe foot
bridge together thus her thoughts
ran shonld they ever cross it again?
it was clear and simple. To move
one end of the plank so that the vi
bration of a body crossing should
dislodge it from the bank; to watch
the faithless lover and the false
friend step upon it, and to see them
reel and plunge together into the chill
blackness below!
Suddenly as the purpose had form
ed itself in her mind, the details came
with terrible slowness. It was as if
tbe blow that bad awakened her
worse nature had stunned instead of
quickening her intelligence. The
idea of vengeance bad presented it
self naturally and promptly as she
arose from the ground, on which she
had sunk with no feeling but that of
woe and self-pity in her heart; and in
place of the rapid suggestions that
had before coursed through her brain,
and the mingled tears and moans that
bad expressed her pain, there was
now one dull and solid impulse pre
vailing over all else, and working it-
! eeif out by slow, laborious, and cruel
methods.
The change was hardly t'aat which !
takes place wten an insane mania
seizes tbe mind Mary Wilson was
no: ctid, as science knows madness,
la her short season of unconscious
ness a new and strange seal and a
L-arfdl will seemed to have entered
the vacant brain sad heart, leaving j
the furnuT occupaa's to wander
iLrutigh infinity with no power over
or claim upon the bodily teotuient
that had been stolen front them.
Even more despotic than tbe posses
sion of scriptural narrative, the de
mos that had entered into the por
girl lett no sense of a present deity
to be worshipped or to be sought in
praver. All was dark and blank but
tbe one dreadful purpose to which
she was moved witn the persistency
of an implacable savage impulse.
What was tbe impulse that drove
ber away from ber lodgings, away
from the sound of tbe rauiiag mill,
and away from, tee village streets
crowded trice a day with a hastily
passing throng? Could she have
told.4 Could she have accounted fur
those wanderings through tbe frozen
woods; those hours spent cronc'aing
under the bmk of the ravine, where
tbe rush of tbe Black river over its
bowlders drowned all tbe sonnds of
civilization, and the sighing spruces
shut oat every sight? She knew on
ly that she bated the faces of ber fel
low Leirtgs, tbeir roiees, and their so
ciety. They were nothing to her un
til she bad done what sbe renst do,
and then what woull they r. i
Thought reached no farther, if she
might be said to think.
Tbe same power that had impelled
h"r as in a dream all day. brought
her, draggled, famishing and burning i
witn a neat mat naa no wooiesome
warmth for ber pinched Hod. t. tke' (
rendezvous by the canal Tkere was a
pitchy darkness over all. Tb swirl of.
the water in the anfrozen canal aloae j
told what Jay benea'h the narrow
path which could now bw traversed
Unly by familiar fe-H after pissing;
the riic'e posts that were felt, not
snow found no gieam wuica it ra got
re Heel to tbe cloads that lowered
above. Tbe lights that shone dim
through the paper curtains of ib
boarding bouses where the opera-
uvea were a. aupper, Kvaeu "-k
short fa the aistanee and lose teem-
and
I ranting, and with a strength
that
as srarceir ner own. th
girl
wrenched the plank aside from its in.
secure fastening. Deliberate! sha
balanced it upon the edge, testing iu
equilibrium with her foot. It waved
j under ber weight
j With an inarticulate sound ex
j pressing latisfaction, she turned and
walked ia the direction from which
one mast come to cross to the mill.
She crouched ia the darkness beside
the path, silent as the Iadiaa ia am
bush. One idea alone possessed her
sallea mind; it was that of two foot
steps, aud tbe fate of to persons.
This accomplished, there was nothing
in the future. .Present revenge was
all.
Tbe time was wefl chosen. Dowa
the path came the sound of feet and
of subdued voices. Not evea a
darker shade was risible opon the
universal shadow to mark tbe ad
vancing figures. They existed to
tbe senes only as the noise of
crunching snow and the mariner of
softly spoken words. Thus they
came nearer, and Mary's heart grew
harder as the ripple of laughter and
the low response ftll on ber ears.
Ihey were opposite to her, when
j sbe heard, as if continuing a subject
already
P'-ken of, the man's voice
saving:
"No, she "s too flighty. I w ouldn't
bother myself abou; her any more. If
I was you."
"But she isa't flighty to me, Joe.
If you knew her you'd say so, too.
And I don't know what's been the
! matter with her."
j "'hat difference does it make. Ag-
. cue s a sniuiess crazy tning. or
she wouldn't have lefuhe nvll, where
she was earning good wages, for
nothing but ber laziness."
"O! Joe! yoa don't know, or yon
wouldn't talk that way. O!" and
sobs came through the darkness,,
"I've been wicked to let yoa think
such things of Mary. She needn't
bare left unless she wanted to."
"I hope I know that,"said the man,
half sneerirjgly.
"But sLe gave up ber place to me.
O ! so generous as she is ! I didn't
know of it until she had fixed it all
with the foreman, and then she only
kissed me, and said, 'Aggie, I told
you you wouldn't have to leave.'"
"It's just as shiftless, anyway."
"Joe, d yoa care anything for me?"
said the girl' voice, angrily.
"Of course I do," was the reply.
"Then quit talking that way about
n:y best friend, who's as much better
tbau I am as you can think. She's
just the best girl ia Ashton, and I
won't go a step further with you to
night if you don't say so."
For the first time ia that cold and
dreary day a shiver shik Mary
Wilson's limbs. Aggie's dress had
brushed ber to passing, and she bad
followed close, hearing every word
that was spoken. Blinded as ber
rieart was to reason, the evil spirit
ii . . a. , . .
. " mere wnna occupacy shrunk; De-
j ana sincere
p .... .ua,,eU "'r
!" " f Be "now,
j a am and confused way, tnatAg-
i p "nnst'ious oi guilt in steat-
iIuo "er mier, ner saennce was
appreciated, and that the one friend
left her in tbe world was imperiled
by her Land She again felt the
weakness of the evening before over
coming her.
A moaa aroe to her lips, but was
crushed down. What, after all, was
Aggie's affection with the loss of
Joe ? Could it atone for the shame
and misery advancing opon her with-
the certanty of invincible fate as the
result of her wild passion ? Could it
make the dreadful future as toler
able for her as the miserable present?
Better to make one final sacrifice and
gaia oblivion for herself, while leav
ing Aggie to her happiness.
She was now trembling in every
limb. The demon tore her as he wa
driven out by the exorcism of divine
charity. Weak and faltering, bat
with a new purpose, she gathered
her strength and speti past and be
fore the loitering companions towards
the canal. Stopping where she had
bent before, she sought to lift and re
place the plank. Her force seemed
exhausted. Tbe heavy timber swav
ea but refused to be pushed into i"t
former position. She struggled with
desperation, for laughing voice was
approaching. A verti.ro seized her
as with one supreme effort the plank
moved ; she leaned forward opon it,
and with a swift sliding motion il
plunged, dragging her with it, into
the black water of the canal.
"Hnlloo !" said Joe, as he reached
the spot and cautiously put out his
foot to feel the boards in the darknes
before venturing to cross, "something
has happened to the bridge. There
ain't no plank here. We'll Lave to
go round the other way."
l know what you want laughed
Agirie
but I dont tuind takinz a
longer walk witk yon." Lrerland
M-mthhj.
Ah rkfs asMl fcla asxia
B.
writes to the & !entijir Ameri
as follows: "Where is yonr
salt.
Ab Chu?" said I. Ah Chu,
had invited me to dine at his mess,
to celebrate the Chinese festival, and.
barring the chopsticks and some na
tional dishes, which I did not vent
ure upon, a capital dinner it was.
Ab Chu and Lis messmates were
working oa a sugar plantation belew
New Orleans. Ah Chu passed a bot
tle with a quill fitted in the cork.
"Vinegar?" said I. "No; here h
the vinegar," said he, passing me a
bottle exactly like the first "Me
thought voti asky for salt." "Salt it
was," said I. "Well," said Ah Cho.
"that is the salt me gave yoa first"
And sure enough it was; salt dis
solved ia water and nsed in a Said
state. "So," say. Ah Chn, "table
salt i served in China." For con
venience of application, and exact
ness wiib which the seasoning caa be
reg'v-ated, give me liquid salt
Hajlrrol Saulorm.
The Watkics fX. Y ) I rm-n-ral re
lates this story; Robert Bur'iuron.
Esq , w ho ! on the east sborw of
Seneca lake, aearly opposite Coal
J'oiut in the town of Hector. iniVrai
us that ia tbe year
La rii!ed
at Hector Falls, also oa tte eat aid
of the lake, and wa building a boat
oa the wet hir He therefore Lad
;occasi.o t the lake several
times iu h' si nJ aom
from u.ievo to i.rm; mu.rrsti
crvwiag over tne western to tte a-t-
(em shore oa kits of rark and chfps.
The wind being from tbw weal wbm
these voyages were made, tbe navi
gators always bad their broad tails
up fur sails, which enab.'ed tbera to
make goo.1 time, and reach their des-
(tination before oit-ht Their favorite
season for croeaing over seems
to
have been in ui '"
that time of the year when Mr. Bar-
iiog met with them in the largest,
nnmbers.
Oar devil ray be like to work af
ter hoars, because it is past time.
I selves. The mill towered grim
! silent on the other side.